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NRAO Response to NSF Senior Review of Astronomy Facilities
November 3, 2006 at 6:46 pm | Announcement

The National Science Foundation’s Astronomy Senior Review Committee report, released today, made major recommendations for restructuring the NSF’s ground-based astronomy efforts, including significant changes for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

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VLA Discovers Giant Rings Around Galaxy Cluster
November 2, 2006 at 4:53 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope have discovered giant, ring-like structures around a cluster of galaxies.

Cosmic Bubble Image Wins NRAO Contest
Cosmic Bubble Image Wins NRAO Contest
October 16, 2006 at 3:50 pm | Announcement

A striking image of an enormous bubble blown into the dusty gas disk of our own Milky Way galaxy has won first place in the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s second annual Radio Astronomy Image Contest.

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Cosmic Blasts Much More Common, Astronomers Discover
September 30, 2006 at 3:45 pm | News Release

A cosmic explosion seen last February may have been the tip of an iceberg” showing that powerful, distant gamma ray bursts are outnumbered ten-to-one by less-energetic cousins, according to an international team of astronomers.

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New Insight on How Massive Stars Form
September 27, 2006 at 3:47 pm | News Release

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have discovered key evidence that may help them figure out how very massive stars can form.

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Supermagnetic Neutron Star Surprises Scientists
August 23, 2006 at 3:42 pm | News Release

Astronomers using radio telescopes from around the world have discovered a spinning neutron star with a superpowerful magnetic field — called a magnetar — doing things no magnetar has been seen to do before.

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